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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-25
Under the Interstate Law

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Three more
complaints from George Rice, of Mari
eta, o., against the Standard Oil COM
pany have been received to-day by the
interstate commerce commission, max
ing thirteen in all The commission had
no hearing to-day. Tomorrow it will
hear arguments respecting the liability
of express companies under the inter
state commerce law.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-25
EIoped With Another Lover.

BRAZIL, Ind, Oct. PA. B. Warren,
of Evansville, and Miss Jennie Stewart,
of Brazil, were to have been married
last night at the residence of Miss Stew
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-25
Snow Eight Inches Deen

GAYLORD, Mich, Oct. PA terrible
snow storm has been raging here for
two days and the snow is eight inches
deep.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-25

arts father. The hour came and with it
the minister and guests, but the bride
was missing. The report is current that
she has elOped with another lover. Miss
Stewart is eighteen years old, pretty
and of respectable parentage.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-25
GOOD NEWS TO TRAVELLERS.
Great Reduction in Railroad
Ear,oc

Fares.
Commencing Nov. 1, 1887, the Wiscon-
sin Central line will sell 2.OO0-mile
tickets at the rate of two cents per mile.
These tickets will be on sale at COM
pany offices in st. Paul and Minneap-
oils.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-25
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.

T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
An Artistic Room.
Art Age.

In furnishing, any lady with taste can, with
little thoughtful care and study, produce har-
monious effects of color and grouping, with the
simplest means. have in mind most attract
i've room made so at little expense besides that
of taste and judgment. The room is large and
square, and serves both as library and drawing
room. The walls are covered with an inexpensive
paper, dark red in color, with very small scroll
pattern in light shades of red, and has a frieze
eighteen inches deep, with Egyptian lotos flower
design ribbed ground. The design is in red,
touched with gold. a light drab surface. A
picture rail of dead gold placed below the frieze.
Window curtains and portieres hang alike from
brass rods, in straight heavy folds. and are
made Of drab Turkish toweling, lined with soft.
red. cotton material. The toweling has rich
effect, and looks like uncut velvet The windows
are furnished with sash curtains of cream white
Swiss muslin, with large red spots grouped in
clusters of three. The floor is entirely covered
with an inexpensive carpet of the kind called
Venetian, and has small feur-de-lys pattern of
light drab a dark drab ground-the design
being outlined with gold color. Low book shelves
of ebonized wood surround the walls. and the
books are protected from dust by full hanging
curtains of red India silk On the top of the
bookcases are placed small bronze busts, pieces
of artistic pottery, etc. The mantel piece is of
ebonized wood, of the simplest form and design,
draped with Turkish toweling in deep festoons
edged with wide netted fringe of twine
Hearth and CRATE bordering are of red glazed
tiles-a brass fender and fire irons completing
the whole. Over the mantel hangs mirror.
the sole obiet de luxe in the 1t is an old
Venetian glass, with wide open-work carved
frame laid upon the mirror. which shines
through the 1nterStleeS. from eacn SIDE spring
quantity carved branches for candles. The sofa
and easy chairs show wood work. and are up
holstered in the Turkish toweling. Two tall
standards of wrought iron scroll work hold
porcelain lamps with large parasol shades, and
the chandelier is good reproduction of old
Italian wrought-iron work. Several bamboo
chairs stained red. and furnished with red plush
cushions stand about, and pretty writing table
occupies the space between the windows. A
two-shelved five o'clock tea table of cherry wood
holds a dainty tray with tea service of Minton
porcelain, and is placed before the sofa near the
fire. Three or four brilliant black Japanese
goat skin rugs stand out with excellent effect on
the light drab carpet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
Where Woman Is Found Wanting.

ART age.
The chagrin among progressive women" has
been great at the announcement of the marriage
engagement of the President of Wellesley to
Professor Palmer. of Harvard. So brilliant and
impressive a career thrown away, they seem to
think. One correspondent comes forth and
asks. tsWhy need it be thrown away, why can
not Miss Freeman, as Mrs. Palmer. retain her
brilliant position, and one be found also for
Professor Palmer in the noble halls of Welles
leys" In answer to this extract from din
ner speech at Wellesley year, or two ago.
ought to be conclusive.
Eve find that every position in the institu-
ton can be well filed by women b1,t one, That
one is in the kitchen department., where we
have been obliged to install male cook"
Ard vet sect thee to nunnery' was not
more frequently thrown to the medieval woman
than "Get thee to the Kitchen" is nowadays to
women fretted by unused powers Certainly
nobody would recommend either nunnery or
kitchen to Miss Freeman, but if it is thought
best for Professor Palmer to take the only mas
crline position there whyl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
Salt ON Crops.

London Horticultural Times.
Thirty years successful use of salt upon all
kinds of crops has proved value to me. 1t
should not be used on cold, heavy moist soil,
and if anyone does he will disappointed in
ground cold and moist. l, will do such soil more
harm than good. 1t should not be upon
every Young tender plant of any kind as 1t
will be very kill them Judgment
should be employed in using SO strong an agent.
I had friend who heard recommend salt
on onion beds, when strictly urged that it
should De dragged worked in before the seed
sown; but. forgetting what said, he did not
salt until the onions were about two inches high,
and it killed shem all; but sowing another
crop properly it turned out splendidly. Had he
waited until the tops were big large pipe
stems no might have covered the ground an inch
deep, and his onions would have done finely.
Onions should be sown the same ground
year after year, as they continue to improve.
There yards hundred years old, add their
yield would astonsh the common grower. The
tops when cut off should be scattered the
ground lido not leave them in lumps1, as they
make the best food for the growing onions; then
SOW salt and then put on coat of manure.
Salt is much of a fertilizer in itself. though
plants take it mp, you tell by testing and
BIZ the sIiffening and glazing of straw of plant
grown in sailed ground. / think is acts upon
and assimilates the gross matter in the soil
to make available food 1t should be in every
garden.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
Care of Lamp Chimneys.

Pittsburg Chronicle
The breaking of lamp chimnies is mainly due
to unequal expansion, and some suggests a
remedy: Are you the fortunate possessor of a
diamond ring' Make it useful as well as orna-
mental by cutting with it straight, perpendicu-
lar marks at short distances all around the bull
ging part of your chimney, before using it at ALL
These cuts will give the glass the necessary
room for expansion and contraction when too
quickly heated or cooled, and prevent it cracking
but if like myself. you have no diamonds
monns Except those of the Roman matronl
you may tougher in this way: Place it in tin
pail flor protectionl and immerse it entirely in
your cook-stove reservoir in the morning when
the wateris cold; let it remain throughout the
entire daywhile the water is hottest. and the
following night during which it will slowly
cool. When removedin the morning it wilt be
found almost proof against cracking from heat
or cold. Then in cleaning, don't use soap-suds,
which are apt to make it more breakable, and in
time less clean, but, if badly smoked, first re-
place the chimney upright in your sink and pour
over it briskly. boiling hot water
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
Feeding Butter1niIk to Pigs.

Baltimore Sun.
Buttsrmilk is highly heterogeneous food, con-
tanning as it does, about one part nitrogen to
two parts carbon-the proportion of nitrogen
being twice much necessary for profitable
feeding. that is to feed it without waste. Corn
meal the other hand, is highly carbonaceous,
containing eight nine parts carbon to one part
nitrogen. 1t is at least twice caroonaceous
IL should be for feeding growing pigs, just
buttermilk is too nitrogepous. Now due
admixture of these two feeds will properly bal
the ration and secure ths greatest economy
both In proven ting and providing the
greatest amount of nutrimeut In feeding pigs
at the Wisconsin agricultural experimental
station the rule has be en- to allow pound of
corn meal to every gallon OF buttermilk. This
leaves the ration still strong in the heterogeneous
element necessary to promote growth. AS the
pigs advance in size and fat is more desirable
than growth, more corn meal is added. This
makes the food more cerbouaceous and causes
the hogs to Law more fat
In some experiment made at the Massachu-
setts agricultural experimental station-count-
Ing corn-meal at $2S per ton and butternilk at
L. cents per 100 pounds-it found that a
pound of pork, fed at first slop made of
twelve ounces of corn-meal for every gallon of
buttermiB, cost but cents; but that after
gradually increasing the corn-meal until 1t
reached within fraction of two pounds of the
meal to each gallon of the buttermik, the cost
of making pound of pork amounted to .. 70
cents. This latter was in the coolest part of
the winter and il thought that the differ
ence in temperature (requlring. as 1t did. more
carbonaceous foodl accounted in a great meas
ure for the difference in the cost OF the pork.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
Ministers and Creamcakes.


It is an accepted tradition that ministers and
theological folk generally are very fond of sweet
things to eat Deep philosophers might trace
some connection between this tendency and
their benignity and sweetness and light. Per
haps it is IN some sort expression of the
lation between knowledge and the love of sugar.
However that may be. the Athenian distinctly
remembers that in childhood days whenever
there were ministers for company at dinner
the mother always put three Jumps in the cup
without asking and then slipped two extra ones
on the saucer. There was never a lump left
of this sort never forgotten, for they help to
remove the painful awe and uncomfortable es-
TEEN in which most children hold these mighty
correctors of bad habits A liking for sugar
makes ministers a little less of gods and brings
them nearer to earth where children dwell.
That there is sectarian difference IN the
kinds of sweet things, however, to correspond
with differences of creed, is an uncommon bit
Of knowledge 1t appears however. from a
cent discovery that one denomination at least
has distinctive form of sweetness. which might
be termed the Unitarian brand.
A few week ago a lady in Newton was pre-
pairing to receive number of Unitarian minis
tiers, who had come together in that pretty city
on account of some conference ministerial
meeting While the hostess was putting the
finishing touches to the generous feast which
was modestly called luncheon, the wife of one
of the ministers happened to call. After ad-
miring the array of good things which were
prepared for Just ministers all alone she sud-
denly cried out in alarmed tone:
But my dear Mrs. X, where the cream
cakes2 Don't you know that gathering of
Unitarians without creamcaSes would be almost
as bad sewing circle with the tea left out!'
Mrs. x. did not know it before, but a boy
was hurried off Immediately to the nearest
bakeshop. and she has now for one of her
watchwords:
.Creamcakes for Unitarians."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
SOUVENIRS IN WATCH CASES.
A jewellers Mistake Results In Serious Do
mestic Trouble.
Jewellers Weekly.

jewellers Weekly.
In four out of every five watches brought us
to be regulated. repaired, or cleaned we find
some token. Sometimes it is bit of ribbon or
a lock of hair petal. But oftener it's
fourleaved clover. The four-leaved clover is
love token always. It is by the maiden fair
given to her lover, who tenderly slows it away
in the back of his watch and forgets all
about it. When his watch goes wrong he takes
1t to jeweller and doesn't think of the relic it
contains. 1t is difficult always to keep these
things straight, and once in a while we mix them
up
istered a kick. He took out of his watch tiny
bit of blond hair, tied with piece of pink rib
bon. and told me in good round terms that it
here a couple OF weeks ago to be regulated and
forgot to take out four-leaved clover had in
the back of it. l didn't think any more about it
until last night, when my girl looked in the
back case to see If the clover was still there
When she found this lock of blond hair she fixed
me with cold glittering glance and offered
back my ring. put In the next hour trying to
explain that didn't know anything about the
Internal blond hair, and / didn't meet with fiat
tering success, Now If you don't hunt up that
than deputy sheriff. And you've got to give
me a written statement that you put this blond
hair in my watch. or I'll prosecute you for ma
Gcious mischief. You hear mel'
Well, l saw trouble in the air. but took the
yellow hair and pink ribbon and laid it away
and in day or two middle-aged man came in
with wrath in his face. What in thunder do
you mean by disrupting mans family peacel"
he began, as he pulled out his watch and took a
four-leaf clover out of the back case do YOU
want to break up a loving household and get me
into the divorce COURT l left my watch here
with lock of my wifes hair in it. and last night
she found this measly four-leaf clover in place of
it. I've carried that bit of hair ever since we
were engaged. and if don't get it back you had
better move to some other town. What dye
clover in my life, nor did my wife, either 1
wouldn't go through the row had last night
again for your whole store. Now. you hustle and
get me back my own keepsake"
produced it and explained how it occurred.
and his brow cleared. Now L think of it," he
said. as he started to go. lust you write me
letter and tell how this happened, and sign it and
seal it for all you're worth. Women never be-
lieve a man unless he lies to EN-, and 1 want
something to further trouble" / did SO,
and he departed with his mind at rest.
The other young man came in in day or two
and said he desired to make his regular Thurs
day evening call, and wanted his four-leaf clover
and the accompanying affidavit He got them
both,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
Talking in Church.

St. Louis In ristian Advocate
.'It is almost universal We are astounded at
its prevalence in city, town and country The
aPSas fRan
gregation met to worship God. They have
ioked, talked. whispered, chatted. gossiped, and
laughed till they about as fitted for the serv
ice of that hour company of monkeys in
the wilds of Africa The serInon. falling upon
such hearers, will have aboutSthe effect as
water poured on ducks back rain falling on
the sands of Sahara. The old Methodists used
to sing while the congregation gathering;
the spirit of worship and of song prevailed.
The modern Methodists chat gable, gossip and
iabber till the preacher rises to announce his
hymn and the spirit of ead-about. rattle head,
idle talker runs through thewhole hour of chaffy
worship
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
MRS. sURRATT,s GRAVE.
A Correspondence Chat About a Visit to
Washfn gton's Mount Olivet.


Washington special in San Francisco Chronicle.
people in Washington anyhow where Mrs. Sur
raft was buried, and be told they have really
forgotten or never knew" Vague reports
have fitted through the press at times that her
remains were lying in Potter's Field, or that
they were given to a medical college. Not half
the people in Washington know what DISPOSE
ton was made of them when the old Arsenal
grounds rernodeled and the bodies taken away.
Finding that the bodies of Wirz and Mrs. Sur
raft were inferred in Mount Olivet your
respondent went out to this beautiful home of
the dead and visited the noted graves, about
which there has been SO much wild speculation.
The sexton met the inquiry for the grave of Mrs.
Surratt with very significant smile, that he
explained as follows: 1.-THE curiosity to see her
grave would have kept guide busy all the
time for the first few years after she was bur-
led here" said he I'VE could not spend time
to show the people the grave. so we used to
direct them as well as could and let them
find it for themselves There is one curious
thing, though No who has said anything
about it in print has ever been able to tell the
truth" Taking the main road, the lot contain
ing the remains of Mrs. Surratt was reached.
lying and facing the extreme eastern
boundary of the cemetery 1t is the very last
rovsfcf lntS that side of the grounds. The
lot was donated by friend, and is a large. well
laidsout lot, containing the one neglected grave.
Some time ago man was erecting monument
on his lot. and an old discarded stone that was
taken down he wondered what he should do
with. Finally idea occurred to him to do
nate it to Mrs. Surratt." 1t was accordingly set
up at her grave headstone, the original
name was cut Off and Mrs. .Surratt' inscribed
plainly across it. 1t is an old plain marble
slab about four feet high and stands in a leaning
position. The grave of the keeper of Anderson
vile is a single grave IN lot nearer to the
main entrance. The who buried him is
still employed at the cemetery, and as he iden-
tilted the grave he kicked foot against
small block of stone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25
TWO CYCLONE STORIES.
How the Sight of FnnneI-Shaped Cloud
Affects a Man.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
The other day at the Press Club rooms a
group of reporters were relating personal ex-
saw" said one. was the bowling cyclone at
Racine about four years ago. l never want to
see another, for the sight scared away ten
wears of my life. / saw big. copper-colored,
funnel-shaped cloud approaching, and, anticipa-
ting that there would be lively storm, went
to the top story of the Y. NJ. G. A. building to
see it break over the city. The immense fun
mel came nearer and nearer. lower and lower,
majestically approaching the Bohemian quarter
of the city Then, to ny horror. buildings were
tossed in the air like dice thrown from box,
mingling in iudescribable confusion with Sec
tons of fences broken and uprooted trees, all
in cloud of dust. can't describe the terror
that took possession of me when / saw the big
houses flying through the air. and to this day |
do not know how got down the several fights
of stairs and out of the building: When L re.
covered my composure / was ten blocks away
in the opposite direction. all out of breath. [
don't think ever ran the distance in such
short E>>riod of time as that day trying to run
THAT reminds me-" said one of the listeners,
'sof little episode that put afew gray hairs in
my head. 1t was in Dakota and occurred only
last year. / was working on st. Paul paper
and had been sent a special mission into the
adjoining territory. A friend of mine had taken
clam in Dickey county and took advantage
of the opportunity afforded to pay him visit.
We we're having social chat when observed
an anxious look came over his face; He stepped
TO the window and with blanched face shouted
me and the members of Instantly.
- Rush for the cellar
whats the matterf' asked.
So I'm afraid there viii be q cyclone he an
swered, and 1 would rather bein the cellar than
in the garrett
81 would like to see cyclone I said, and
and took my place at the window, while the
Others rushed for the cellar. expecting me to
follow. confess did not anticipate that my
friends fears well-foupded. for L saw
nothing alarming in the cloud That travelling
toward the place. There was'a barn a little
ways beyond, and the cloud seemed to be MAX
ing Decline for it. There was oppressive
stiffness for minute or two then few gusts
of wind and. before had Tina to think that
barn went sailing up towards the sky, and was
carried bodily over the roof of the house like a
mere toy. The house itself seemed to be lift
ed several feet upon end aRd then settled
down again gently. as though some giants hand
had tilted it and set it back uninjured Was
scaredf Ny hair stood on end, and when saw
that barn sailing in the air | wished had taken
my friends advice and crept INFO the cellar.
The barn was scattered for distance of several
miles. We couldn't find enough sound boards
to build respectable hen=coeP. That same
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-25

Philadelphia Record.
The true mode of saving manure is to compost
il. or 10 thoroughly mix it with some absorbent
material On the farm the stalks straw and
leaves may be advantageously used but time
and labor may be saved by reducing all such
materials stalks and straw to short lengths,
first using them for bedding the animals and
then adding them to the manure heap. The alb
sorbent materials take up the liquid manure and
prevent evaporation and "fre-fangng," while
the manure, in turn, assists in decomposing the
whole quickly into available plant
. food. Throwing stalks and whole straw
into the barn-yard to be trampled
Is well-known practice. but it requires much
manner, they partially protected by
thick silicate that is not only insouble but rem
ders The whole impervious to water. The ma
terials used in the manure heap are quickly de-
more readily in liquids. The labor required to
reduce the absorbent materials to fine condi-
ton will be found insignificant compared with
the labor saved in handling, spreading aud haul
ing the manure to the fields, those who have
been accustomed to loading man containing
undecom posed corn stalks are aware, and an ad-
dlt1onal advantage Is also secured IN the manure
being in more complete condition for applca-
ton and as plant food. But it is best to always
the absorbent materials in the stalls, in or
der to allow them to be saturated by the liquids,
and after the formation of the heap any liquids
that may be saved should be poured over the
heap. In this manner a large quantity of man
may be made of a superior quality and far
more servlceabie than that not so carefully pre-
pared. Dry earth is cheap substance, and
should be used freely, while mari, in addition to
being excellent absorbent, in itself contains
potash. lime and the phos phates in an insolube
condition. but which are changed in composition
and converted into plant food by the action of
the manure If we'll sheltered and protected
from the rains and sun a greater value will be
possessed by the manure than if exposed to the
influences OF the weather